# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1981_S14
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14 MISSIONS
Evangelistic Missionary ......--22..-. 0.200020 eee eee eee 1 The Board for Missions in its meeting of Nov. 183—14, 1980,
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Volunteer—Curriculum Enrichment
Total Latin America

West Africa
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Latin America

new candidates for assignment overseas. The board also
resolved to recruit three teachers who are certified and qualified
with DCE rating.

It is to help change this situation that the 1979 convention
of the Synod resolved ‘‘To Foster Development of Mission
Emphases in Synodical Schools” (Convention Proceedings, p.
95, Res. 1-21). The board is continuing to give attention to
fulfilling the intent of this resolution. Regular visits for
mission convocations, interviews of students, and consulta-
tions with faculty members and school officials are already
taking place particularly at the St. Louis and Fort Wayne
seminaries. These visits will gradually be expanded to include
also the teacher training institutions of the Synod. Included in
these campus visitations are also the concerns of the 1979
convention Res. 1-23A. “To Recruit Workers for Ethnic and
Special Ministries.”

devoted an entire afternoon to a thorough discussion of the
above two resolutions. For this purpose the board was pleased
to have as resource presenters Dr. Ralph Bohlmann, president
of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Dr. Robert Preus, president
of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, and Dr.
Walter Rosin, executive secretary of the Board for Higher
Education. The presentations and ensuing discussion were
mutually helpful and will also help pave the way for continued
evaluation and improvementof specialized preservice training
for newly appointed missionary candidates.

Finances

The resources needed to fund the mission outreach of the
church in North America, special ministries, and overseas is
funded by people who are members of the LCMS.

The Board of Directors of The Lutheran Church—Missouri
Synod approves a total spending budget for the Synod each
year, based on its income projection for the year. The budget
assigned to the Board for Missions is then allocated by the
Board for Missions to its North American and overseas areas,
based on requests received. The following graphs show the
budgets allocated to the Board for Missions and how the Board
for Missions used these funds for mission outreach. The first
graph shows the total budget of the Synod from 1965 to 1981
with the amount allocated to the Board for Missions during the
same period. The second graph shows how the Board for
Missions reallocated these funds.

17-YEAR BUDGET COMPARISON

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Synod Budget Mission Budget Percent
1965 0.0. ee $25,578,000 $ 9,618,000 37.6
1966 ........00...0..... 26,077,000 9,376,000 35.9
1967 00... 26,552,000 9,621,000 36.2
1968 26.2 28,470,000 10,124,000 33.5
1969 ..002 2 27,640,000 10,106,000 36.5
1970 00. eee 26,063,000 9,870,000 37.8
OTL oo. eee 26,678,000 9,868,000 37.0
1972 2202, 26,854,000 9,829,000 36.6

TOTAL SYNODTCAL BUDGET

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1973 0.0.0... e eee eee 27,020,000 9,817,000 36.3
1974 000 26,158,000 9,465,000 36.2
1975 0... eee 26,000,000 8,771,000 33.7
1976 ...0 eee 26,030,000 9,833,000 37.7
1977 2... eee 27,233,000 9,710,000 33.6
1978 2.2... e eee. 28,550,000 9,784,000 34.3
1979 2... eee, 28,550,000 9,532,000 33.4
1980 2.0... ee, 30,660,000 10,827,000 33.3
1981.00... eee. 30,750,000 10,877,000 33.3